What’s on

Hark Sweet Music

NZ Barok has three concerts in May featuring two of the most beloved musical treasures from the Baroque in all their glory on baroque instruments, Handel’s Water Music and Purcell’s Fairy Queen. The orchestra comprises leading baroque specialists performing with instruments and playing styles of the time, breathing fresh life and vitality into baroque and classical masterpieces. Friday, May 12, 7.30pm; Saturday, May 13, 2pm; Sunday, May 14, 7.30pm all at St Luke’s Church, Remuera.

LUNCHTIME CONCERTS

Wednesday, May 10, 12.30pm1.15pm, the first in our ‘Quartet of Lunchtime Concerts’ series,

The Saint Kentigern College Rockers (acoustic) will be performing at Pakuranga Library. Enjoy some live music in the middle of the day. All welcome. Phone 377 0209, Pakuranga. library@aucklandcouncil. govt.nz.

Garage Sale

Our next sale will be on Saturday, May 6 from 8am10.30am at the Barn, Trinity Methodist Church, 474 Pakuranga Rd. We will have a wide selection of newly available winter clothes and boots, for babies and children as well as adults. We also still have a good selection of CDs @ 20c each, and DVDs @ 50c each. Our special this month is jewellery – necklaces, earrings and bracelets, all $1 each.

Summerset at Heritage Park in Ellerslie is a hidden retirement oasis in the heart of Auckland, located just ten minutes from the city centre, and close to the bays and main arterial routes. With a range of fantastic indoor and outdoor facilities including a heated indoor pool spa, café and bar, bowling green, hair salon, library, and a great community of residents - there’s always something to do, no matter the weather.

We’re holding an Open Day every Thursday in May and we’d love to show you around. Take a look through our stunning show homes and facilities, plus enjoy an informal chat with our residents to find out what village life is all about.

Love the life you choose

Open Days

Every Thursday in May, 10am - 2pm

Summerset Heritage Park

8 Harrison Road, Ellerslie

09 950 7962 | ellerslie.sales@summerset.co.nz

Capital Gains Tax Easy To Implement

To say a capital gains tax would be difficult to implement is so much media codswallop.

Australia has had a successful model for decades and it would be easy to copy.

It hasn’t affected the wealthy from becoming wealthier one iota and, as a result, and directly in proportion to New Zealand not having one, there the teacher class ratio is 1/25, their health system (nurses there are some of the highest paid in all OECD countries) is that much better as is their roading, defence force and quality of life.

Weak-kneed New Zealand politicians and the media need to grow up, stop the wasteful and puerile point-scoring on the issue and tell it the way it is as in Australia.

Gary Hollis, Mellons Bay YOU’RE MISSING THE POINT

Once again Dennis Horne (Times, March 22, 29) completely misses the point, fails to answer any questions raised, engages in appeals to authority, and makes false claims about me.

I am prepared to answer the headline question: “What do I tell kids born today?”.

I tell them “Do not fear climate change”:

• Climate change has always been around and will always be.

• Humanity has adapted through many climate cycles.